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...family's stories in a way he hadn't before, with a historic and poetic ear. "I realized I could write about my family, that it was a valid thing to write about," he says. It was then he began writing the material which he would later develop and expand into his thesis. By the time I met Kevin in September, 1988 at a Padan Aram recruitment meeting, he told me with some certainty that he was a poet...
...city is now trying to lure the Lotus Development Corp., the computer software giant that is Cambridge's fourth largest employer. Lotus has already moved some of its operations to the suburbs, and is threatening to expand into North Reading unless the city offers tax breaks and lower rents...
...while there is broad consensus that the University needs to update its computing facilities and to expand their accessibility to faculty and students, many issues still need to be examined before the University can upgrade its current equipment...
...only 11% of those receiving support were AFDC mothers. Under current law, welfare recipients are allowed to keep only $50 in child support. The Family Support Act bolstered efforts to collect the money by requiring automatic withholding from the wages of absent parents. A plan proposed by Ellwood would expand those efforts and add a new twist: collection insurance. In cases in which the absent father could not be tracked down or did not have the money to pay up, the government would pay the mother a fixed amount per child each year. This approach is the basis...
...parents to earn up to 50% of their grant levels without losing benefits. In 1975 Congress enacted the Earned Income Tax Credit (EIC), which currently offers cash supplements of up to $1,192 to working parents with incomes under $21,250. A number of recent congressional initiatives would vastly expand such efforts. Bills introduced by Congressman Downey and Democratic Senator Jay Rockefeller would use a combination of tax breaks and increased eic payments to beef up the revenues of working families...